More effective and profitable organizations are smarter organizations, reacting more quickly to changes and making better decisions. Despite the sluggish marketing for enterprise technology, this conviction is becoming more common as we see the fast-growing adoption of analytics and business intelligence tools.

But even through BI and analytic solutions on the market today are powerful and feature-rich, they have a hard time satisfying users' rising demands, and information analysis is no longer a matter of routine reports made at predictable intervals. People around the world expect to query data themselves.

This paper addresses how Sybase IQ and Complex Event Processing (CEP) technologies complement the portfolio of business analytics solutions from SAP.